Well,
I woke up and went to work this morning. I called the clinic and got an appointment at 9:45. I stayed with my kids until I went because I was feeling ok and was sort of in denial.
Truth has it....I had strep. When I found out I had strep, I immediately made Ben an appointment and sure enough...he has strep as well. We both are now taking some meds and will hopefully be ourselves in no time!
Thanks for thinking and praying for us!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Holiday Season
Hello Everyone,
I hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving! Ben and I had a different kind of Thanksgiving. I will just go through a time line of what our Thanksgiving weekend looked like.
Tuesday night: Anne gets sick in the middle of the night.
Wednesday: Kids come to school until 10:30 and there was a Thanksgiving Feed for the community at 11:00. I loved this last year, but I went home as soon as it started to sleep and try to get well. Ben had a good time serving and was able to come home around 2:00, so it was a shortened day.
Thursday: I was starting to feel a little better and so Ben and I went to the hall where there was a collaborative church service where three pastors from three denominations gave a sermon. There was Russian Orthodox, Catholic, and Covenant church's represented. Ben and I both sang in the choir for the Covenant church. It was a lot of fun. Then I came home to prepare some scalloped corn and get read to go over to Sean's where about half the teachers gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving dinner. There was everything at this meal that we would have back home, including the turkey. Donni works at the District Office and I always call her Martha Stewart of the Tundra because she makes AMAZING dessert! We ended the evening by playing some catch phrase and spoons. Fun was had by all.
Friday: I woke up feeling kind of achy again so I rested a little bit, until I remembered I could start decorating for Christmas. So, I cleaned up the house and got all the Christmas decorations out and started decorating. I maybe overdid it because I then got worse and started to have a fever. I then noticed that my throat was starting to hurt. Oh great I thought, I hope I don't have strep! Ben took care of me and we just relaxed and watched some T.V.
Saturday: I still felt pretty sick and so I camped out on the couch for the majority of the day. I still had a sore throat and was still feeling achy. Ben went to Leaders for Life at 6:00 at the church and when he returned he started complaining of a stomach ache. The same kind I had on Tuesday night. I was hoping that maybe the spam sandwich he had for dinner just didn't settle well.
Midnight on Saturday: I hear Ben running for the bathroom. Yep, I will spare the details, but he was throwing up. This continued to go on about every two hours. In the meantime, I started feeling a little better.
Sunday Morning: Wake up for church and Ben is still feeling pretty bad. I'm feeling great on the other hand, but decide not to go to church because if I do have strep, I don't want to spread it around. Ben spent the day laying on the couch eating saltine crackers, drinking gatorade, and watching T.V. I plan on going to the clinic first thing in the morning to make sure that I don't have strep and I will keep you all updated on how Ben is.
So, it wasn't a very typical Thanksgiving break, but we still have so much to be thankful for! We are thankful that God has blessed us with an amazing family, amazing friends, a job, a roof over our heads, and each other!
Sorry no pictures for this post. Hopefully they will come soon!
With Love,
Ben and Anne Harvey
I hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving! Ben and I had a different kind of Thanksgiving. I will just go through a time line of what our Thanksgiving weekend looked like.
Tuesday night: Anne gets sick in the middle of the night.
Wednesday: Kids come to school until 10:30 and there was a Thanksgiving Feed for the community at 11:00. I loved this last year, but I went home as soon as it started to sleep and try to get well. Ben had a good time serving and was able to come home around 2:00, so it was a shortened day.
Thursday: I was starting to feel a little better and so Ben and I went to the hall where there was a collaborative church service where three pastors from three denominations gave a sermon. There was Russian Orthodox, Catholic, and Covenant church's represented. Ben and I both sang in the choir for the Covenant church. It was a lot of fun. Then I came home to prepare some scalloped corn and get read to go over to Sean's where about half the teachers gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving dinner. There was everything at this meal that we would have back home, including the turkey. Donni works at the District Office and I always call her Martha Stewart of the Tundra because she makes AMAZING dessert! We ended the evening by playing some catch phrase and spoons. Fun was had by all.
Friday: I woke up feeling kind of achy again so I rested a little bit, until I remembered I could start decorating for Christmas. So, I cleaned up the house and got all the Christmas decorations out and started decorating. I maybe overdid it because I then got worse and started to have a fever. I then noticed that my throat was starting to hurt. Oh great I thought, I hope I don't have strep! Ben took care of me and we just relaxed and watched some T.V.
Saturday: I still felt pretty sick and so I camped out on the couch for the majority of the day. I still had a sore throat and was still feeling achy. Ben went to Leaders for Life at 6:00 at the church and when he returned he started complaining of a stomach ache. The same kind I had on Tuesday night. I was hoping that maybe the spam sandwich he had for dinner just didn't settle well.
Midnight on Saturday: I hear Ben running for the bathroom. Yep, I will spare the details, but he was throwing up. This continued to go on about every two hours. In the meantime, I started feeling a little better.
Sunday Morning: Wake up for church and Ben is still feeling pretty bad. I'm feeling great on the other hand, but decide not to go to church because if I do have strep, I don't want to spread it around. Ben spent the day laying on the couch eating saltine crackers, drinking gatorade, and watching T.V. I plan on going to the clinic first thing in the morning to make sure that I don't have strep and I will keep you all updated on how Ben is.
So, it wasn't a very typical Thanksgiving break, but we still have so much to be thankful for! We are thankful that God has blessed us with an amazing family, amazing friends, a job, a roof over our heads, and each other!
Sorry no pictures for this post. Hopefully they will come soon!
With Love,
Ben and Anne Harvey
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Winter?
Hey Everyone,
Ben and I are sorry that month has passed since our last post. Wow, this last month has gone by so fast! We have had several things happen in the last month. We have celebrated birthdays, Halloween, and two blizzards that brought us a couple feet of snow.
School is going great so far. I continue to love my students and have seen so much growth in their academics and their behavior. I think it also makes it easier being a 2nd year teacher instead of being a newbie. Right now my kids are where my kids were last year in January. I'd say that is pretty good. I think it helps that I know the curriculum better too. :) Ben continues to be one of the greatest teachers ever. He works so hard and I think it goes unnoticed by not only our administration, but his students as well. Although, when I was in high school it didn't even phase me to think about how hard my teacher was working to prepare lessons. Regardless, he is doing a great job!
He is still doing his "High Octane" group on Thursday nights. It's going really well. So far they have been working on a Honda and two snow machines. There are usually 5-10 young men who come each week and the best part about it is they have been sticking around for the devotional. I have started my tutoring program as well. We meet Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:00. It is through a program called SERRC. I love working with the 3-6th graders after school. It is kind of relieving being with them because they don't require every second of my attention. :)
Well, we've gotten snow and I'm 99.9% sure it is here to stay. Let me tell you, Moose our dog absolutely LOVES the snow. He will go and pounce through the deep snow and stick his head underneath and bring his head up full of snow. If you can imagine going swimming in snow...that is what Moose does. When we come in from being outside Moose will sit on our couch looking out the window sometimes whining to go back out. He has such a funny personality. We played pretty hard today, so Moose is currently laying on the floor looking almost lifeless. Don't worry, he's still breathing! :)
Thanksgiving is coming up and Ben and I still aren't sure what our plans will be. I'm sure we will have a Thanksgiving celebration with all of our teacher friends. As for Christmas this year, Ben and I won't be making the trek back to Minnesota. It is just too expensive and was not as relaxing as we thought it would be. We LOVE seeing our friends and family don't get us wrong, it was just too much money for too little time. Several of our friends that we teach with will also be staying in the village, so we won't get lonely. :) We are going to go into Anchorage for a couple of days and do some shopping for the spring.
Anyways, that's all for now. We think of everyone often and hope to write again soon! Speaking of writing, I have a new email address. Feel free to write me. It is anne.harvey7@gmail.com
With Love,
Ben, Anne, and Moose
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